We Have Been Lied To Our Whole Lives About Everything That Matters by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-07-25 at 00:12:53 )

We Have Been Lied To Our Whole Lives About Everything That Matters by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Stories about protagonists who have been misguided their whole lives about something very important have been emerging in our culture for generations, and they continue to delight audiences in the box office to this day.

The pauper was really a prince. Luke was Darth Vaders son. Keanu Reeves had been living in a computer simulation. Bruce Willis was really a ghost. Jim Carreys whole world was the set of a TV show, and everyone in his life had been lying to him since his infancy.

This theme repeats so often because it strongly resonates with people. And it strongly resonates with people because it is exactly what is happening.

From our earliest moments we are trained to fit in with a society that was designed from the ground up by the powerful in the service of the powerful. As soon as we are old enough to get curious about the world and how it works our heads are filled with lies about such matters, by our education systems, by the media we consume, by our parents who were indoctrinated in the same way, and by the very culture we find ourselves immersed in from day one.

These stories about a character who has been deceived about life resonate so strongly with us because on some level we all suspect it might be true of our own lives as well. They whisper to something hidden and sacred within us that has always sensed that there is something not quite right with the way we are perceiving things.

We have spent our whole lives marinating in lies which serve the powerful.

We were deceived into believing that we live in a democracy whose government acts in accordance with the will of the voting public.

We were deceived into believing our political systems are driven by two warring ideological factions whose divisions are naturally occurring phenomena in our society instead of the product of deliberate social engineering.

We were deceived into believing our government is basically good, and that it stands in opposition to foreign governments who are pure evil.

We were deceived into believing the way things are is the only way they could possibly be.

We were deceived into believing false things about the ways we gather information and form our understanding of the world.

We were deceived into believing the news media tell us the truth about what is going on.

We were deceived into believing that everything we hear from our side of the political partisan divide is true and trustworthy.

We were deceived into believing the partisan filters which have been placed over our perception of national and world events by indoctrination are entirely reliable instruments for interpreting information and drawing conclusions.

We were deceived into believing false things about ourselves.

We were deceived into believing that we are successful if we can become dominant capitalists and wealthy ladder climbers, and that we are failures if we do not turn the gears of industry and climb over others to get ahead.

We were deceived into believing that we are good if we uphold the made-up, power-serving rules of law, of culture and of religion, and that we are bad if we transgress them.

We are deceived into believing that we need to keep accomplishing, achieving and obtaining, that we need to keep earning money and approval, so that we might one day feel adequate at some imaginary point in a future which never arrives.

If we really commit to uprooting the untruth that has been planted in us, we can even discover that we have been deceiving ourselves about the way we experience reality.

That the perception of oneself as a finite character who is separate from the world is based on false assumptions about the way experience is happening, unhelpful mental habits born of incorrect premises, and overlooked aspects of our own consciousness. That we have been making ourselves miserable with false beliefs about who and what we are.

This civilization is the set of the Truman Show, and we are all Truman.

But because we are all Truman, we can only walk off the set if we walk off together. There is no option to leave as an individual, because even if you know it is all lies, you are still stuck in a world full of humans whose behavior is driven by lies.

Awakening to reality as an individual can for this reason sometimes be more uncomfortable than remaining asleep in the dream, because you are like Truman after he realizes it is all a sham, but before he escapes.

At times you are just stuck there, freaking out at the actor who is playing your mother while she tries in vain to cut to a commercial break. It can be distressing for you, and it can be distressing for the people around you who are not yet on the same page.

The only way we are getting off the set of the Truman Show is if we can all succeed in waking each other up from the lies which built it.

Until then we will be stuck in a world of poverty, war, exploitation, degradation, ecocide, and suffering.

It is not until enough of us have unplugged our minds from the matrix of lies that we will be able to use our strength of numbers to force real change.

Only then will we be able to escape.

Only then will we be able to walk off the set.

Only then will we be able to turn to the audience and say, "In case I do not see ya: good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

And then turn around, and walk out the door, and begin our adventure into reality.

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